Subject: Re: four letter word
From: "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "JRB3" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:54:59 -0500

Your dad's been in the cabin so not sure how he's feeling (seemed good),
but much of the coverage (with few exceptions) has been the message he
wanted to deliver: our 2016 candidate needs to run on our successes. DMR
article below.

Biden to Democrats: Run on Obama's record
Jennifer Jacobs
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/staff/17871/jennifer-jacobs/> and Jason
Noble <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/staff/8887/jason-noble/>,
[email-masked] 5:37 p.m. CST February 12, 2015
Vice President Joe Biden conducts a round table discussion on jobs at the
DMACC campus in Ankeny Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. (Photo: , Zach
Boyden-Holmes/The Register)

(Photo: Kelsey Kremer/the Register)
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His voice soft and earnest, Vice President Joe Biden pleaded for future
leaders to not undo "all of our hard work," referring to what he and the
president have done since they took over the White House in 2009.

Without naming the most likely Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary
Clinton, he said he has a message for all Democratic candidates.

"Run, yes, run — on what we have done," Biden said in Iowa on Thursday.
"Only what we have done. Stand for what we have done. Acknowledge what we
have done. And be judged on what we have done, if we have any chance for
resurgence — continued resurgence — in 2016."

*BIDEN: *5 things Republicans got wrong
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/02/12/things-gop-got-wrong-biden-says/23310883/>

He added: "Some say that would amount to a third term of the president. I
call it sticking with what works."

Officially, Biden, 72, was in Iowa for part of the day for two
government-business-related stops to talk about the Obama administration's
policies and proposals. Unofficially, he's keeping his name in the market
as a possible candidate himself for the 2016 race for the White House.

DES MOINES REGISTER

Joe Biden
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/candidates/2015/01/12/joe-biden-iowa-caucus-candidate-profile/20169575/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=>

During a speech to about 800 people at an invitation-only event at Drake
University in Des Moines, Biden spoke for more than an hour and a half
about the Obama administration's accomplishments, and chided Democrats for
not trumpeting them.

"It wasn't that long ago that even members of my party were saying our
economic path hadn't worked," Biden said. "They were looking to distance
themselves from what we have done and the policies we have put in place. I
think that would be a terrible mistake."

Iowa has been a bit of Democratic desert lately, with a scarcity of
high-profile Democrats showing up on the presidential audition stage here.
Meanwhile, there has been a tornado of GOP activity by Republicans testing
the waters for the White House.

Clinton, the most likely Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, last
visited Iowa just before the November elections, when she campaigned for an
Iowa candidate for U.S. Senate. But she has postponed launching an official
campaign, and therefore hasn't been on the stump in first-in-the-nation
Iowa.

Vice President Joe Biden, during a speech at Drake University on Thursday,
Feb. 12, 2015, tells Democrats looking to run for office in 2016 not to
distance themselves from the Obama administration's policies. Kelsey
Kremer/The Register

Biden worked to fill that Democratic void today. He held up pieces of
criticism he said Republicans made against Obama administration policies,
then argued why each Republican turned out to be wrong.

"Are we going to return to policies that I would argue have failed our
country in the past?" he said.

Biden said that since he and Obama were sworn in, they've dealt with
escalating health care costs, made the tax code more equitable, infused
billions into infrastructure and schools and stabilized the banks.

He said "unemployment is down since we took office," and that they've cut
the deficit by two-thirds. He said the stock market has nearly tripled, and
the housing market is back up. He said North America is now the epicenter
of energy wealth in the world, with more gas and oil rigs pumping than in
all the rest of the world combined. Natural gas is cheaper here than in
Europe and Asia, he said.

"That's why companies are coming home," he told the audience, which was
predominantly Drake students. "We're no longer, as I said, talking about
outsourcing. Your generation is going to be hearing about in-sourcing. ...
They're coming home — GE, Siemens, Ford Master Lock. I could go on and on.
Major, major new investments in the United States."

*MORE COVERAGE: *Kathie Obradovich's take
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/kathie-obradovich/caucus/2015/02/12/biden-democrats-run-record/23310459/>
| Biden's shoutouts to locals
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/12/biden-butt-buddy-iowa-branstad-cownie-culver-neal-smith/23306029/>
| Harkin Institute sponsors visit
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2015/02/12/biden-drake-harkin-institute/23292975/>

The audience of 730 plus an overflow room of 100 included notables such as
former Iowa Gov. Chet Culver; state Rep. Todd Prichard, D-Charles City;
former congressional candidate Jim Mowrer of Boone; Dan Power, a former
president of the Iowa AARP and Drake emeritus law professor who was
director of constituencies for Biden's 2008 campaign; State Treasurer
Michael Fitzgerald; Polk County Treasurer Mary Maloney; Des Moines Mayor
Frank Cownie; Democratic operatives Brenda Kole and John Hedgecoth; Marsha
Ternus, a former Iowa Supreme Court who is now the director of Harkin
Institute for Public Policy; Andy McGuire, chairwoman of the Iowa
Democratic Party; Jim and Helen Hubbell, philanthropists with a hefty
business legacy in the Des Moines area; Danny Homan, president of AFSCME
Iowa Council 61; and Tim Tracy, the Carroll County party co-chairman who
ran for state party chairman last month.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Cool
>
> RHB
> 202.333.1880
>
> > On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:48 PM, [email-masked] wrote:
> >
> > 600-person room at Drake, full (almost all students). 100+ in overflow
> room that he stopped by, too. Very good speech.
> >
> >
> > ASM
> >
> >> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just keep in mind you're arriving on AF2- it makes it a little bit less
> painful.
> >>
> >> RHB
> >> 202.333.1880
> >>
> >>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Alexander S. Mackler <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 7 years ago you guys drove me back east after the caucus. I recall, as
> we crossed the Mississippi River and left Iowa, we swore we'd never set
> foot in the place your mom calls "a four letter word." Feel obligated to
> say I'm now on a plane on my way back there for the first time since.
> >>> But Beau broke the promise first, I don't feel as bad.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> Alexander Snyder Mackler
> >>> (302) 598-8678
>

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Alexander Snyder Mackler
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